Author: George

Marion: I am so excited to see you’re talking about the Anthropocene. I discussed it in my short essay and found it so interesting, but I couldn’t really encompass it into my essay, so I am very happy you found

Last week’s class on the non-human was extremely interesting. For me, it helped clear up some ideas I have for my long essay, and allowed me to adapt what I was saying in my short essay. It showed me that

Chernobyl is situated in Ukraine, at the fringe of Eastern Europe. There are so many explorations of the affect of Chernobyl in Soviet and post-Soviet states, and on Western Europe, which is what led me to explore this topic on

  France, at the end of the 1960s, saw nuclear protest movements emerge because of rising ecological fears.[1]Meanwhile, in 1967, ‘Nature and Youth’ formed in Norway as a radical environmentalist group.[2] Clearly, there existed a European trend of environmental mobilisation in Europe

I was born exactly fifteen years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion happened in 1986, and so it is always something that has intrigued me. Why did it take several days for the USSR to announce the explosion? How did people

‘German nationalism has, from its beginnings, […] always been a transnational nationalism’. Conrad makes this statement in the introduction of his iconic monograph Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany (p.20). He justifies his claim by describing how the mobilisation of groups

The new field of “global and imperial history” has attracted many to research centres and postgraduate programmes. It bears revitalised views on traditional ideas of empire. In fact, British imperial history has become particularly entangled in this new global phenomenon,